I’m very please to announce that The Maps for Curious Minds series is back—with 100 vivid infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and historical wonders of North America.

North American Maps for Curious Minds was written by Matthew Bucklan and Victor Cizek and illustrated by Jack Dunnington with a foreword by me (Ian Wright).

Find out the answers to the following questions:

• Where can you find the world’s tallest and steepest roller coasters?
• Who is the highest-paid public employee in each state?
• Where can you visit the world’s largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island?
• Where can you find the world’s biggest geode?
• Where can you find the world’s oldest, tallest, and largest trees?

and many, many more.

You can find out more about the book from The Experiment here.

And if you’d like to get your own copy, you can do so from the following stores:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Books-A-Million
• Bookshop.org
• Indigo
• Powell’s
• Workman

Map created by Eva Fuglei & Arnaud Tarroux via Research Gate

The map above shows the incredible journey of one arctic fox in 2018. Over the course of just a few months she walked up to 155km per day all the way from Svalbard (a Norwegian archipelago) to Canada’s Ellesmere Island via Greenland.

You can read the full story here. And see a picture of the fox here.

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Like everyone else right now, I’ve had difficulty finding toilet paper in recent weeks. Therefore, I thought I’d create this very simple guide showing the 10 best toilet paper deals you can find on Amazon, just don’t expect to find brands like Charmin, Scott or Cottonelle.

The criteria were very simple, listings needed to have stock available at the time of writing, reviews had to be above 4 stars and had to not obviously look like a scam (although I take no responsibility for the quality of these listings, that’s on Amazon).

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Map created by Voyageurs Wolf Project, via Reddit

The map above shows the 2,774 miles (4,464 km) travelled by a lone wolf in North Minnesota over the course of 11 months. The data comes the Voyageurs Wolf Project via a GPS-collar that tracked locations every 20 minutes.

Tom Gable, Wildlife Biologist posted it on Reddit and also answered some questions you can read below:

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Map created by reddit user jmerlinb; @jackmerlinbruce

The illustration above shows just how big the British Empire was at its territorial peak in the early 1920s. At that time it covered 35.5 million sq km (13.71 million sq mi), which represents 23.84% of the Earth’s land area or equivalent to 93.67% of the Moon’s surface area (37.9 million sq km).

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Map created by TopView Sightseeing

The map above shows some of the most popular superheroes from comics and film who protect New York City. It also explores the areas in which they either live, hide out, or roam for criminals.

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Map created by reddit user 1234julien1234

The map above shows what would happen if you lay the Burj Khalifa on its side within the Vatican City. The Burj Khalifa is world’s the tallest building at 828 m (2,717 ft), while Vatican City is the world’s smallest country in the world at just 0.44 km2 (0.17 sq mi).

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Map created by Reddit user iBleeedorange

The map above supposedly shows all the public saunas in Finland.

According to Statistics Finland, the total number of saunas was estimated to be over 2 million at the end of 2016 out of a population of just 5.5 million people.

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London Public Transport Travel Time Map created using TravelTime Maps Radius tool

Have you ever wondered how much of your city is accessible by public transport within 60 minutes?

Well TravelTime Maps have created a really cool radius tool that allows you to explore how far you can get in a given amount of time.

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